Bangladeshi NGO Teaches Importance of Sanitation

In Bangladesh, the non-government organization Lighthouse shows the value of community-learning while addressing hygiene and sanitation in its successful program for the west Bangladeshi village of Mostafapur.

Bangladesh is considered the world's most densely populated country with 2,639 people per square mile. Dhaka, the capital, is one of Asia's fastest growing cities, with a population currently around 15 million. With some 400,000 new residents arriving each year from rural areas seeking a better life, Dhaka is straining under the pressure of its rapidly swelling population. Already, this megacity faces rising real estate prices, exponentially growing slums, poor quality housing, unreal traffic jams, nagging electrical blackouts, stifling air pollution, poor governance, inadequate clean water supply, and poor sanitation. If population estimates hold true, Dhaka is expected to grow to 20 million by 2020, making it the world's third largest city.

Jon Sawyer's project "Dhaka's Challenge: A Megacity Struggles with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene" (ttp://bit.ly/n0annL) looks at the water, sanitation and hygiene problems that Dhaka is facing today, as well as the people and grassroots projects who are pioneering simple, effective life-saving solutions to the mounting sanitation and hygiene challenges of this mushrooming megacity.

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• Population
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• WASH
• Water Sanitation and Hygene
• Megacity Issues
• Public Health
• Global Health
• Jon Sawyer
• Problems with Megacities
• Dhaka
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• Lighthouse Bangladesh NGO
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